GOPs fire back on Carter “racism” charges
Jimmy Carter
WASHINGTON — When a former president talks, people tend to listen, which is why Jimmy Carter’s assertion yesterday that race is at the core of the anti-Barack Obama sentiments of late is getting attention.
In case you missed it, Carter said in an NBC interview yesterday he believes that “an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.”
Carter continued: “I live in the South and I’ve seen the South come a long way and I’ve seen the rest of the country share the South’s attitude toward minoirty groups at that time, particularly African Americans … And that racism inclination still exists … It’s an abominable circumstance, and it grieves me and concerns me very deeply.”
Carter, the 39th president, went on to predict that Obama can “triumph over the racist attitude that is the basis for the negative environment that we see so vividly demonstrated in public affairs in recent days.”
This morning, the Republican National Committee responded strongly, asserting that Carter is “flat-out wrong. This isn’t about race, it is about policy.”
GOP chairman Michael Steele, (an African American), called Carter’s words “a pathetic distraction by Democrats to shift attention away from the president’s wildly unpopular government-run health-care plan that the American people simply oppose. Injecting race into the debate over critical issues facing American families doesn’t create jobs, reform our health-care system or reduce the growing debt. It only divides Americans rather than uniting us to find solutions to challenges facing our nation.
Steele and his wordsmiths were just getting started: “Characterizing Americans’ disapproval of President Obama’s policies as being based on race is an outrage and a troubling sign about the lengths Democrats will go to disparage all who disagree with them.
“Playing the race card shows that Democrats are willing to deal from the bottom of the deck. Our political system has no place for this type of rhetoric.”
Yup… it has to be race.
Couldn’t be honest policy differences…
so does that mean the blue dog dems are racist too….
what about democratic senator rockerfeller who said theres no way he could endorse this bill last night…..
or even the 45% of the doctors who said they would consider retiring if the bill passes in the IBD poll????
yep were all just a sorry bunch of racists…..or people see through the dems money grab….their other piggy banks are all dried up kiddies!
Jimmy Carter has truly earned the rare distinction of being both
the Worst President and the Worst Ex-President.
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Why is this clown relevant?
Jimmy….Go away.
How many race cards are there in a standard deck?
Who gives a rat’s butt what Carter says??????? He was a bad president to begin with. BobZ hit the nail on the head.
Well due to more pressing issues, HEALTHCARE REFORM!
I pass on the racial aspects of what’s going on for now because of course that aspect is there for many of those who oppose Obama. BUT OTHERS are just pathetically misinformed, angry and taking it out in irrational non-sensible ways against Obama at the detriment of themselves and their children and children’s children.
There *is* some racism involved here - latent in most cases. But some of the people who were screaming about being ”indoctrinated” by the President during the ”school speech” were motivated by race. Obama is doing exactly what he said he would do during the campaign in regards to health care - there are no surprises. Is so many people are unhappy with this, why did he win the election in the first place. He’s doing what he said he was going to do. Wow, what a shock.
No, we don’t like President Obama and Carter for the same reasons - they use Keynesian economic theories to the harm of the US economy, they are 100% pro-choice, they are pro-Palestine AND anti-Israel, their policies increase fuel costs, and they act holier-than-thou.
Black is great; it’s red I object to.
Gail
I think it has to be racial to a great extent behind people opposing the “Public Option” for these reasons:
The public option will make it affordable for those who DO NOT have company sponsored health insurance. It will take profits out of the equation while offering better-managed care as an option to those who do not get subsidies from employers.
Employees who have company provided insurance pay only a fraction of what the actual insurance costs are because the employer pays a very large portion of their costs for them.
If you are employed by a company who offers insurance to you and your family, the average total cost of that insurance is about $13, 388.
Employer picks up about $9,000 of that costs for you.
Employee picks up only a little over $3,000 of the cost of their total premium cost.
Now, individuals who do not have subsidies from employers because their employer does not offer them healthcare, the SELF-EMPLOYED and small business owners are responsible for the total costs of their health insurance premiums. THEY DO NOT GET THESE SUBSTIDIES! And since they are not a large group, this class of individuals pays considerably more than $13,000 in yearly health insurance premiums.
The “Public Option” is the only option that will work for those in this class:
1. Workers who do not have company sponsored insurance.
2. Self employed and small businesses.
3. All who must shop the individual market.
And to those OPPOSERS who cry:
You say the competition will be unfair?
Is the competition between private schools and public schools unfair?
How about private colleges and state colleges?
The only thing that this competition will cause to the insurance companies are smaller salaries to insurance executives and a decrease in ungodly profits that they earn unethically that are based on a false, unfair and unethical model of what is suppose to be a free-enterprise and system of capitalization.
Too many of our politicians are attempting a Bill that should be called:
“The Insurance Company Profit Protection and Enhancement Act”
-as I heard an ex-insurance executive put it about what these politicians who oppose Obama is attempting to accomplish.
http://sickforprofit.com/
RE: Employer Sponsored Health Insurance
Now employer sponsored premiums get extreme rate hikes also when there are sick employees in the risk pool. So they are forced to find ways to get you out of their risk pool, usually by getting rid of you. (Firing YOU!)
Employers in Missouri and most other places can get rid of you for whatever reasons they want to be frank.
For any employee to feel secure because it isn’t a problem for them today is just plain stupid.
–This will probably assure him his next Nobel Peace Prize…at least until the next totalitarian dictator he can represent…